The Historian is the 2005 debut novel of American author Elizabeth Kostova. The plot blends the history and folklore of Vlad Țepeș and his fictional equivalent Count Dracula. Kostova's father told her stories about Dracula when she was a child,.

The Historian is the 2005 debut novel of American author Elizabeth Kostova. Kostova's father told her stories about Dracula when she was a child, and later in life she was inspired to turn the experience into a novel.

Little, Brown and Company.

Elizabeth Kostova has no plans on writing a sequel. Character development is asymmetrical - we never really find out what happens to Barley, the circumstances behind Paul's death are both bland and inconsistent with the rest of the plot

Elizabeth Kostova has no plans on writing a sequel. Character development is asymmetrical - we never really find out what happens to Barley, the circumstances behind Paul's death are both bland and inconsistent with the rest of the plot. It seems as though after about page 500, the author got tired of writing and just gave it a quick and comparatively less interesting end.

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The Historian Elizabeth Kostova Little Brown £1. 9, pp656. This book reads like a cross between Dracula and The Da Vinci Code. Essentially, it is a spirited update of Bram Stoker's classic, with a vastly ingenious plot in which Dracula has developed a mysterious penchant for librarians. Like all reworkings, it is more knowing, and less fun, than its original. But it is also a riff on the taste for books about 500-year-old conspiracies.

Elizabeth Johnson Kostova (born December 26, 1964) is an American author best known for her debut novel The Historian. Elizabeth Johnson Kostova was born Elizabeth Johnson in New London, Connecticut and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee where she graduated from the Webb School of Knoxville. She received her undergraduate degree from Yale University and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan, where she won the 2003 Hopwood Award for her Novel-in-Progress

The Historian - Excellent reading Of the countless books and novels I have read, both fiction and non-fiction, I felt this was exceptionally well written

Elizabeth Kostova has produced an honorable summer book, reasonably well written and enjoyable and, most important of all, very, very long: One can tote The Historian to the beach, to the mountains, to Europe or to grandmother's house and still be reading its 21st-century coda when Labor Day finally rolls around. The Historian - Excellent reading Of the countless books and novels I have read, both fiction and non-fiction, I felt this was exceptionally well written. It was both an adventure in history and well told tale

Пользовательский отзыв - geza. tatrallyay - LibraryThing. Well written, interesting perspective on Vlad the Impaler.